S.I. No. 267/1949 - Department of Posts and Telegraphs. Foreign Post (Except Parcels). The Foreign Post Warrant, 1949.

S.I. No. 267 of 1949.

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS. FOREIGN POST (EXCEPT PARCELS). THE FOREIGN POST WARRANT, 1949.

Dated : 30th August, 1949.

The Minister for Finance, on the representation of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs testified by his signature hereto, and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Post Office Acts, 1908 to 1937, and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby by this Warrant orders as follows :—

PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL.

1 Short Title and commencement.

1.—(1) This Warrant may be cited as the Foreign Post Warrant, 1949.

(2) This Warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of September, 1949.

2 Application of Interpretation Act, 1937 .

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Warrant.

3 Definitions.

3. In this Warrant—

Air letter.

(1) The expression " air letter " means a letter intended for transmission by air mail service which is written on a special form approved by the Minister as regards dimensions, form and manner of make-up.

Air Mail packet.

(2) The expression " air mail packet " means a postal packet on which an air fee has been prepaid and which is, at the request of the sender, conveyed or intended to be conveyed through any part of its course by an air mail service.

Air Mail service.

(3) The expression " air mail service " means a service for the conveyance of mails by air.

Commercial packet.

(4) The expression " commercial packet " means a packet of papers or documents wholly or partly written or drawn, not having the character of a current and personal correspondence, such as open letters and postcards which are out-of-date and have already fulfilled their original purpose, or copies thereof, papers of legal procedure, documents of all kinds drawn up by public functionaries, way-bills or bills of lading, invoices, certain documents of insurance companies, copies of or extracts from deeds under private seal written on stamped or unstamped paper, musical scores or sheets of music in manuscript, the manuscriptof works or of newspapers forwarded separately, and pupils exercises in original or with corrections but without any note which does not relate directly to the execution of the work, and also all packets containing correspondence exchanged between the pupils of schools even when they have the character of a current and personal correspondence on condition that such packets are forwarded through the intermediary of the authorities of the schools concerned.

Fictitious postage stamp.

(5) The expression " fictitious postage stamp " means any facsimile, imitation, or representation (whether on paper or otherwise) of any stamp for the time being authorised or required to be used for the purpose of the Post Office or of any stamp for denoting a current rate of postage of any country (including the State).

Inland.

(6) The expression " inland," when used in relation to any postal packet or any description thereof, means posted within and addressed to a place in the State or the United Kingdom.

Insured letter and insured box.

(7) The expression " insured letter " and " insured box " shall be deemed respectively to include any insured letter and insured box which is for the time being transmissible under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Agreement for the Exchange of Insured Letters and Boxes for the time being in force, and the Detailed Regulations made thereunder.

Letter.

(8) The expression " letter " includes any communication in the nature of current and personal correspondence.

Letter packet

(9) The expression " letter packet " means a packet transmitted at the letter rate of postage and containing goods or articles of merchandise, but does not include any packet intended to be delivered in a country which has not given its consent to the admission in such packets of goods or articles liable to customs duty.

Literature for the blind.

(10) The expression " literature for the blind " means—

(i) books and papers impressed with characters in relief for the use of the blind,

(ii) plates for embossing literature for the blind,

(iii) sound records and other articles specially adapted and intended solely for the use of the blind, provided that they are sent by or addressed to an officially recognised institute for the blind.

Magazine for Canada.

(11) The expression " magazine for Canada " means a newspaper, magazine or trade journal registered as provided by this Warrant for transmission to Canada and includes a packet of two or more such magazines.

Minister.

(12) The expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.

Postcard.

(13) The expression "postcard" means a card recognised as a postcard in accordance with the terms of the Universal Postal Union Convention, and (except where otherwise expressed) includes a " reply postcard."

Postal form.

(14) The expression " postal form " means a form issued by or under the authority of the Minister.

Postal packet.

(15) The expression "postal packet " means (except where otherwise expressed) a letter, air letter, postcard, printed packet, commercial packet, letter packet, sample packet, packet of literature for the blind, or magazine for Canada.

Prescribed.

(16) The expression " prescribed " means prescribed by the Minister.

Printed packet.

(17) The expression " printed packet " means a packet consisting of or containing—

(i) one or more of the following articles or documents, whether printed, engraved, lithographed, or mimeographed, that is to say :—

(a) newspapers and periodicals, books, sewn or bound, and pamphlets,

(b) sheets of music (except perforated sheets intended to be used with automatic musical instruments), visiting cards, address cards, proofs of printing, with or without the relative manuscript,

(c) engravings, photographs, and albums containing photographs,

(d) pictures and drawings, plans, maps, paper patterns and catalogues,

(e) prospectuses, advertisements and notices of various kinds ;

(ii) in general all impressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment or cardboard by means of printing, engraving, lithography, mimeography or any mechanical process easy to recognise (except the copying-press, a hand stamp with or without moveable type, and the typewriter) ;

(iii) reproductions of a manuscript or typewritten original obtained by a mechanical process provided they are posted in occordance with the regulations governing such packets in the inland service.

Purpose of the Post Office.

(18) The expression " the purpose of the Post Office " has the same meaning as in the Post Office Act, 1908.

Reply postcard.

(19) The expression " reply postcard " means a postcard in two parts, one of which may without further payment be again transmitted through the post.

Sample packet.

(20) The expression " sample packet " means a packet consisting of trade patterns or samples or merchandise. Exceptionally it includes packets containing the following articles, viz., printers' blocks, patterns sent singly, keys sent singly, cut fresh flowers, articles of natural history (such as dried or presrved animals and plants, and geological specimens) and tubes of serum or vaccine and pathological objects rendered harmless by their mode of preparation and packing. Provided that the said articles, except tubes of serum and vaccine sent in the public interest by laboratories or institutions officially recognised, shall not be sent for a commercial purpose.

United Kingdom.

(21) The expression " United Kingdom " means Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

4 Application of this Warrant.

4. Except where it is in this Warrant otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of this Warrant shall be deemed to apply exclusively to postal packets transmitted by post between a Post Office in the State and any other country (not being the United Kingdom).

RATES OF POSTAGE.

5 Letters

5. There shall be charged and paid on every outgoing letter the appropriate rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

6 Postcards and reply postcards.

6. Except as otherwise provided in this Warrant, there shall be charged and paid/(a) on every outgoing postcard (other than a reply postcard) the rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto ; (b) on every outgoing reply postcard the rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

7 Printed packets, commercial packets and sample packets.

7. Except as otherwise provided in this Warrant, there shall be charged and paid on—

(a) every outgoing printed packet (other than a magazine for Canada) the rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto ;

(b) on every outgoing commercial packet the rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto

(c) on every outgoing sample packet the rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

8 Magazines for Canada.

8. There shall be charged and paid on every magazine for Canada, the rates of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

9 Literature for the blind.

9. Except as otherwise provided in this Warrant, there shall be charged and paid on every outgoing postal packet consisting of literature for the blind the rates of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

10 Insured boxes.

10. Except as otherwise provided in this Warrant, there shall be charged and paid on every insured box addressed to any country or place with which the Minister may for the time being have an arrangement for the exchange of insured boxes the rates of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

11 Air mail packets.

11. There shall be charged and paid on every outgoing air mail packet or air letter such rates of postage as may be fixed within the limits specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

12 Articles grouped together in one packet.

12. Articles transmissible in printed packets, commercial packets, and sample packets respectively (not being literature for the blind), may be enclosed in one and the same postal packet subjects to the following conditions :—

(a) That each article does not exceed the weight and dimensions applicable thereto under the First Schedule to this Warrant if sent as a printed packet, commercial packet or sample packet respectively.

(b) That the total weight of the packet does not exceed the weights specified in the First Schedule to this Warrant in relation to commercial packets and printed packets.

(c) That the minimum rate of postage on each packet shall be the equivalent of whatever minimum rate is in force for commercial packets, if the packet contains articles transmissible in a commercial packet and equivalent of whatever minimum rate is in force for sample packets if it contains articles transmissible in printed packets and sample packets.

13 Late fee postal packets.

13.—(1) There shall be charged and paid in respect of late fee postal packets such fee as may be prescribed provided the maximum fee specified in respect thereof in the Second Schedule to this Warrant is not exceeded.

(2) In this Regulation the expression " late fee postal packets " means postal packets posted after the ordinary hours of collection for particular despatches by being handed in at such post offices or otherwise as may be prescribed.

14 Charge in respect of postal packets or insured boxes containing dutiable goods.

14. Except as otherwise provided, where an incoming postal packet or insured box contains any article liable to customs duty and the Minister so directs, there shall be charged and paid by the addressee, if the packet or box be delivered to him, such further fee as may be prescribed but not exceeding the maximum fee specified in respect thereof in the Second Schedule hereto.

GENERAL CONDITIONS.

15 Prohibitions.

15. There shall not be posted or conveyed or delivered by post any postal packet—

Obscene prints, etc.

(1) consisting of or containing any obscene or indecent print painting, photograph, lithograph, engraving, cinematograph film, book, card, or written communication, or any other indecent or obscene article, whether similar to the above or not, or

(2) having thereon or on the cover thereof any words, marks, or designs which are grossly offensive or of an indecent or obscene character, or

Explosives and dangerous or noxious substances.

(3) consisting of or containing—

(a) Opium, morphine, cocaine and other narcotics, provided that such narcotics may be sent for medical or scientific purposes in insured boxes to countries which admit them when so sent,

(b) any explosive substance,

(c) any dangerous substance,

(d) any filth,

(e) any noxious or deleterious substance,

(f) any sharp instrument not properly protected,

(g) any living animals, except—

(i) bees, leeches and silkworms ;

(ii) parasites, and destroyers of noxious insects intended for the restraint of those insects, and exchanged between institutions officially recognised,

(h) any article or thing whatever which is likely to injure any other postal packet in course of conveyance or any receptacle in which the same is conveyed or an officer of the Post Office or other person who may deal with such packet, or

Contraband.

(4) containing—

(a) (except in letter packets, printed packets, packets of literature for the blind, and insured boxes) any article liable to customs duty,

(b) samples of which the number forwarded by the same sender to the same addressee shows an obvious intention of avoiding the payment of customs charges due to the country of destination,

(c) any article which by the laws of the country or place in which the packet is posted or to which the packet is addressed it is unlawful to send by post,

(d) gold bullion and coin of gold or silver exceeding £5 in value.

Provided that a packet prepaid at the letter rate of postage or a sample packet may contain articles liable to customs duty where the importation of such articles by letter post or sample packet is permitted in the country or place to which the packet is addressed and there is affixed to the address of such letter or packet a label in the prescribed form ; or

Fictitious or used stamps.

(5) containing or bearing any fictitious postage stamp or any counterfeit impression of a stamping machine used under the direction or by the permission of the Minister ; or

(6) purporting to be prepaid with any stamp or impression of a stamping machine which has been previously used to prepay any Revenue duty or tax ; or

Transparent covers.

(7) the cover whereof is entirely transparent or has therein an open panel. Provided that there may be a transparent panel in the cover for the purpose of showing the address of the addressee, subject to such rules as may be prescribed ; or

(8) the cover whereof or the part thereof reserved for the address is divided into separate sections for the insertion of successive addresses ; or

Unauthorised marks, designs, etc.

(9) having thereon or on the cover thereof any words, letters, or marks (used without due authority) which signify or imply, or may reasonably lead the recipient thereof to believe, that the postal packet is sent on the service of the State ; or

(10) having thereon or on the cover thereof, any words, marks, or designs of a character likely in the opinion of the Minister to embarass the officers of the Post Office in dealing with the packet ; or

(11) having anything written, printed, or otherwise impressed upon or attached to any part of that side of a postal packet which contains the address at which the packet is to be delivered which, either by tending to prevent the easy and quick reading of the address of the packet or by inconvenient proximity to the stamp or stamps usedin the payment of postage, or in any other way, is in itself, or in the manner in which it is written, printed, impressed, or attached, likely in the opinion of the Minister to embarass the officers of the Post Office in dealing with such postal packet ; or

(12) having anything written, printed, or otherwise impressed across the postage stamp thereon ; or

(13) consisting of or containing two or more postal packets (of the same or of different descriptions) addressed to different persons who are at different addresses.

In this Regulation the expression " consisting of or containing two or more postal packets " includes a postal packet containing postal packets or postal forms with addresses different from the address borne by the outer packet.

16 Packing.

16. Every postal packet must be made up and secured in such manner as in the opinion of the Minister is calculated to prevent injury to any other postal packet in course of conveyance, or to any receptacle in which the same is conveyed, or to an officer of the Post Office or other person who may deal with such packet, and where the Minister has made any special rules in relation to the packing of any particular packet or article, such rules shall be observed.

17 Maximum weight and dimensions.

17. Subject to the provision of this Warrant, no postal packet shall be forwarded or delivered by post under this Warrant which exceeds the appropriate weights and dimensions specified in the First Schedule hereto.

18 Pre-payment.

18. Subject to the provisions of this Warrant the postage payable on every postal packet must be prepaid.

19 Mode of payment.

19. Postage may be prepaid—

(a) by adhesive postage stamps ; or

(b) by impressions of stamping machines working under the direction or by the permission of the Minister ; or

(c) by the use of a stamped envelope, cover, postcard or other postal form ; or

(d) by the use of an embossed or impressed stamp cut out of or otherwise detached from an envelope, cover, postcard, or other postal form ; or

(e) on a printed packet, by a printed impression, or by any other process authorised by the Minister ; or,

(f) in such other manner as may be prescribed.

Provided that—

(i) no stamp or impression of a stamping machine which is imperfect or mutilated or defaced in any way shall be used in payment or to denote payment of postage,

(ii) no stamp indicating on the face thereof payment of a registration fee as well as postage shall be used in payment of postage on any unregistered postal packets.

20 Position of stamp.

20. Where postage is prepaid, the stamps or impressions on the envelope, cover, postcard, or other form, shall be placed in such position as the Minister may deem convenient.

21 Postal packets on which postage is not paid.

21.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Warrant, any letter or postcard upon which no part, or a part only, of the postage thereon is prepaid, shall be charged with double the amount of the deficient postage. Provided that any reply postcard, upon the two portions of which no part or a part only of the postage is prepaid, shall be detained and (as the case may be) returned or given up to the sender, or returned to the country of origin.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Warrant, any outgoing printed packet, commercial packet, sample packet, magazine for Canada, or packet consisting of literature for the blind upon which no part or a part only of the postage payable thereon is prepaid may be detained and returned, or given up to the sender, or be forwarded charged with double the amount of the deficient postage, as the Minister may, in his discretion, direct.

(3) Any incoming printed packet, commercial packet, or sample packet upon which no part or a part only of the postage payable thereon is prepaid may be detained and returned to the country of origin or be forwarded charged with double the amount of the deficient postage, as the Minister may, in his discretion, direct.

(4) The charge upon a postal packet upon which no part or a part only of the postage payable thereon is prepaid shall not in any case be less than the sum of one penny.

22 Treatment of irregular packets.

22.—(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Warrant, postal packets which are posted otherwise than in conformity with the provisions of this Warrant may be detained and returned or given up to the senders thereof, or dealt with or disposed of in such manner as may be authorised by the Minister.

(2) Any postal packet which is found when in the post to infringe the provisions of paragraph (13) of Regulation 15 of this Warrant may, if the Minister thinks fit, be delivered to the addressee subject to such charges as may be prescribed.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO POSTCARDS.

23 Rules as to postcards

23. The following rules shall apply to postcards :—

(1) No writing except the address and any postal directions recognised by the Universal Postal Union Convention,and no printing except that of any of the matters aforesaid shall appear on the right-hand half of the address side of a postcard.

Private postcards.

(2) It shall not be necessary for postcards of private manufacture (not being reply postcards) to bear on the face thereof the word " postcard " or its equivalent in another language.

Make-up and size of postcard.

(3) A postcard shall not be more than five and seven-eighths inches in length and four and one-eighth inches in width, or less than four inches in length or two and three-quarter inches in width, and shall be made of cardboard or paper stout enough not to hinder its manipulation.

Attachment to postcards.

(4) Nothing whatever shall be in any manner attached to a postcard except—

(a) Postage stamps in payment of postage or of sums payable for registration or for advice of delivery or for express delivery,

(b) illustrations, photographs, stamps of any kind, address labels or slips to fold back for address purposes, labels and cuttings of any kind. Provided that stamps likely to be mistaken for stamps used for the payment of postage shall not be affixed to the address side of a postcard. Provided also that all such articles shall be of such nature as not to alter the character of the postcard, and shall consist of paper or other very thin substance and shall adhere completely to the postcard. With the exception of address labels or slips these articles may be affixed only to the back or to the left-hand half of the address side of the postcard.

24 Treatment of irregular postcards.

24. If any postcard is sent by post otherwise than in conformity with the provisions of the last preceding Regulations, it shall be dealt with and charged as a letter.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO COMMERCIAL PACKETS, PRINTED PACKETS, SAMPLE PACKETS, MAGAZINES FOR CANADA AND PACKETS CONSISTING OF LITERATURE FOR THE BLIND.

25 Condition of posting.

25. Every commercial packet, printed packet, sample packet, magazine for Canada, and packet consisting of literature for the blind, shall be subject to examination in the post, and subject to the provisions of this Warrant, shall not contain anything sealed or otherwiseclosed against inspection, or contain or bear anything in the nature of a current and personal correspondence.

26 Rules for commercial packets.

26.—(1) Commercial packets must be made up in such a way that they can be easily examined. They must be either placed in wrappers, upon rollers, between boards, in cases open at both sides or at both ends, or in unclosed envelopes, or secured with a string easy to untie, or be simply folded, but in such a manner that other articles cannot slip into their folds.

(2) No commercial packet shall contain postage stamps or forms indicating prepayment, whether obliterated or not, or any paper representing monetary value.

Provided that out-of-date letters and postcards may bear obliterated stamps which served to prepay the original postage.

27 Rules for printed packets.

27.—(1) No printed packet shall contain cinematograph films, gramophone records, stationery, or postage stamps or forms indicating prepayment whether obliterated or not, or any paper representing monetary value, or printed papers of which the text has been modified after printing or which bear any marks whatever of such kind as to constitute a conventional language.

Provided that by way of exception to this Regulation it is allowed :—

(i) Outside or inside a printed packet :

(a) To indicate by hand or by mechanical process the name, position, profession, firm and address of the sender and of the addressee, as well as the date of despatch, the signature, telephone number, telegraphic address and code, and postal cheque or banking account of the sender, as well as a serial or identity number referring solely to the packet.

(b) To correct errors in printing.

(c) To strike out, to underline, or to enclose by marks, certain words or certain parts of a printed text, unless this is done with the object of constituting personal correspondence.

(ii) To indicate or add by hand or by a mechanical process :

(a) In advices of departure and arrivals of ships : the dates and times of departures and arrivals, as well as the names of the ships and the ports of departure, call and arrival.

(b) In travellers' advices : the name of the traveller, the date, time and place of his intended visit, and the address at which he is staying.

(c) In forms of order, subscription or tender for publications, newspapers, engravings, or pieces of music : the works and the number of copies required or offered, the price of those works, and notes representing the essential elements of the price, the method of payment, the edition, the names of the authors and publishers, the catalogue number and the words " paper covers," " stiff covers," or " bound."

(d) In forms used by lending library services : the titles of the works, the number of copies required or sent, the names of the authors and publishers, the catalogue numbers, the number of days allowed for reading, the name of the person desiring to consult the work as well as other brief notes relating to the works in question.

(e) On pictorial cards and printed visiting cards, and Christmas and New Year cards : good wishes, congratulations, thanks, condolences, or any other formulae of courtesy, expressed in five words or by means of five conventional initials at most.

(f) In proofs of printing : alterations and additions concerned with corrections, form and printing, and also notes such as " Passed for press," " Read—Passed for press," or any similar note concerned with the execution of the work. In case of want of space these additions may be made on separate sheets. The " copy " may also be enclosed.

(g) In fashion plates, maps, etc. : colours.

(h) In price lists, tenders for advertisements, stock and share lists, market quotations, trade circulars, and prospectuses : figures and any other notes representing essential elements of the price.

(i) On books, pamphlets, newspapers, photographs, engravings, sheets of music, and in general on all literary or artistic productions, printed, engraved, lithographed or mimeographed: a dedication consisting simply of an expression of regard, and on photographs or engravings, a very concise description as well as other brief notes relating to the photograph or engraving itself. The relative open invoice, reduced to its essential elements, may also be included.

(j) On cuttings from newspapers and periodicals : the title, date, number and address of the publication from which the article is extracted.

(k) On change of address notices : the new address of the sender and the date on which the change takes effect, or the old address and the date on which the change was made.

(iii) To enclose a card, envelope, or wrapper bearing the name and address of the sender of the packet, and prepaid for return by means of postage stamps of the country to which the packet is addressed.

(2) No printed packet sent in the form of an unenclosed card shall be forwarded or delivered by post if it is less than four inches in length and two and three-quarter inches in width.

(3) The last preceding Regulation shall apply also to printed packets.

(4) This Regulation does not apply to magazines for Canada.

28 Rules as to sample packets.

28.—(1) No sample packet shall contain postage stamps or forms indicating prepayment whether obliterated or not, or paper representing monetary value or any article having a saleable value.

(2) Samples must be placed in bags, boxes, or removable envelopes, in such a manner as to admit of easy inspection. Articles that would be spoilt if packed in that manner may in exceptional cases be transmitted in a cover hermetically sealed. The same applies to samples of industrial and vegetable products posted in covers closed by the manufacturers or sealed by the examining authority of the country of origin. In such cases the Minister may require the sender or the addressee to assist in the check of the contents either by opening certain packets or in some other manner satisfactory to the Minister.

(3) Articles consisting of one piece, such as pieces of wood or metal, which it is not the custom of the trade to pack, need not be packed, provided that, if the address and the postage stamps are on a label, the address is also written on the article itself.

(4) Articles of glass and other fragile materials, and packets containing liquids, oils, fatty substances, dry powders, whether dyes or not, live bees, leeches, parasites, silkworms and silkworms' eggs, shall be packed in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed.

(5) It is permissible to indicate by hand or by a mechanical process, outside or inside a sample packet and, in the latter case, on the sample itself or on a special slip relating to it : the name, position, profession, firm and address of the sender and of the addressee as well as the date of despatch, the signature, telephonenumber, telegraphic address and code, postal cheque or banking account of the sender, a manufacturer's or trade mark, a brief indication relating to the manufacturer or seller of the goods or concerning the person for whom the sample is intended, as well as serial or registration numbers, the price and any other notes representing essential elements of price, particulars relating to the weight, measurement and size as well as the quantity available and such as are necessary to determine the origin and character of the goods.

29 Rules as to literature for the blind

29.—(1) Packets consisting of literature for the blind must be made up in such a way that they can be easily inspected. They must be placed either in wrappers, upon rollers, between boards, in cases open at both sides or both ends, or in unclosed envelopes, or secured with a string easy to untie, or be simply folded, but in such a manner that other articles cannot slip into their folds.

(2) No packet consisting of literature for the blind shall contain postage stamps or forms indicating prepayment whether obliterated or not, or any paper representing monetary value.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in this Warrant, a packet consisting of literature for the blind may contain outside or inside the packet an indication, by hand or by a mechancal process, of the name, position, profession, firm and address of the sender and of the addressee, the date of despatch, the signature, telephone number, telegraphic address and code, postal cheque or banking account of the sender, as well as a serial or identity number referring solely to the packet.

FURTHER SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO MAGAZINES FOR CANADA.

30 Registration of magazines for Canada.

30.—(1) Any newspaper registered at the General Post Office, Dublin or London, for transmission in the State and in the United Kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage shall be deemed also to be registered as a magazine for Canada.

(2) Any other newspaper, or a magazine or trade journal may be registered by the proprietor thereof at the General Post Office, Dublin, as a magazine for Canada, on payment of an annual fee of five shillings. The following conditions shall apply to the registration of such newspaper, magazine, or trade journal :—

(a) It shall be printed in the State or in the United Kingdom and shall not be distributed gratuitously.

(b) It shall be issued in consecutive numbers at intervals of not more than 31 days.

(c) It shall consist only of paper.

(d) Not more than five-sixths of its contents, including supplements, shall consist of advertisements.

(e) The full title and the date or month of issue shall be conspicuously printed on the cover or in the absence of a cover at the top of the first page and on every detached sheet, page, or piece of paper, which is issued as part of such newspaper, magazine, or trade journal.

31 Renewal of registration.

31. The registration of a magazine for Canada may be renewed from year to year on payment to the Minister of a fee of five shillings, which shall be sent to him with a copy of the magazine on the first day of September in each year.

32 Decision of the Minister to be final.

32. The decision of the Minister on the admission to or removal from the Register of a newspaper, magazine, or trade journal shall be final.

33 Special conditions of transmission.

33. The following conditions shall apply to magazines for Canada tendered for transmission under this Warrant :—

(a) Every magazine shall be posted either without a cover or in a cover open at both ends and so that the same can be easily removed for the purpose of examination.

(b) No article not part of a magazine shall be posted in or in the same cover with the magazine.

(c) No magazine shall contain or bear on the cover thereof anything except:—

(1) The name, address and descriptions of the sender and addressee with the index or reference numbers and letters.

(2) The words " with compliments," " specimen copy " or " voucher copy."

(3) The title of the magazine and a reference to the registration for transmission by post under this Warrant.

(4) A reference to any page of or place in the magazine to which the attention of the addressee is directed.

(5) A request for return in case of non-delivery.

34 Treatment of irregular magazines.

34. If any magazine for Canada is found when in the post not to comply with the conditions applicable to its transmission as intended, it shall be treated as a letter or printed packet.

35 Return of undeliverable magazines.

35. With regard to any magazine for Canada which is returned to a post office in the State by the Post Office of the country or place of address as being from whatever cause undeliverable, the following provisions shall apply :—

(1) Where a request for the return of such magazine to the sender thereof, or some person designated by him, appears on the outside of such magazine, such magazine shall be charged with an additional rate of postage equal in amount to the prepaid rate of postage originally chargeableupon the magazine, and such rate of postage shall be payable by the sender of such magazine and the magazine shall, upon payment of such rate of postage and any other charges to which it has become liable, be returned to the sender thereof, or to the person so designated by him as aforesaid.

(2) Where no request as aforesaid appears upon the magazine but where from any cause the Minister deems it expedient so to do, he may tender such magazine to the sender thereof charged with an additional rate of postage equal in amount to the prepaid rate of postage originally chargeable upon the magazine, and the magazine shall, upon payment of such rate of postage and any other charges to which it has become liable, be returned to the sender thereof.

(3) Where no such request as aforesaid appears upon the magazine, or where upon the tender of the magazine to the sender thereof he refuses or fails to pay the charges to which the magazine has become liable by law, the magazine may be dealt with or disposed of in such manner as the Minister may, in his discretion, direct or authorise.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO AIR MAIL PACKETS AND AIR LETTERS.

36 Posting of air mail packets.

36.—(1) An air mail packet must bear an air mail label, or be marked with the words " air mail " or with such other words as may indicate the desire of the sender that the packet shall be conveyed by an air mail service.

(2) An air mail packet shall be conveyed in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed.

37 Air letters.

37.—(1) Every air letter shall comply with the requirements of the Minister as to the paper used, its dimensions and the form and manner in which it is made up, the position of the stamp and the particulars appearing on the outside, and nothing shall be enclosed with the letter.

(2) A letter shall be transmissible as an air letter only if it is addressed to such countries or destinations as may from time to time be prescribed.

RE-DIRECTION.

38 Conditions of re-direction.

38.—(1) Any postal packet may be re-directed from its original address, or any substituted address, to the same addressee at any other address unless the sender has forbidden re-direction by means of a note to that effect on the address side of the packet in a language known in the country of destination.

(2) Every re-directed packet, if fully prepaid for its first transmission, shall be chargeable on delivery with the amount (if any) by which the postage prepaid on the first transmission was less than the postage chargeable if the packet had been originally addressed to the new destination. Any packet unpaid or insufficiently prepaid for its first transmission shall be charged on delivery with double the deficient postage which would have been due if it had originally been addressed to the new destination. The expression " first transmission " shall be deemed to include transmission to an address within the country in which the packet was posted.

(3) Where a postal packet cannot be delivered and the sender's address is not situated in the same country as that in which the packet was posted, such packet, when returned to the sender, shall be treated as a re-directed packet.

EXPRESS DELIVERY.

39 Express delivery fee on outgoing packages.

39. Upon every outgoing postal packet marked with the words " Express delivery," or with such other word or words as may indicate the desire of the sender that the postal packet may be delivered by special messenger (which word or words are hereinafter referred to as an " express marking "), there shall be charged and prepaid such fee as may be prescribed provided the maximum charge specified in respect thereof in the Second Schedule hereto is not exceeded.

40 Delivery of incoming packets by special messenger.

40. Any incoming postal packet marked with an express marking shall, in the State, be conveyed and delivered by special messenger, subject to the regulations and conditions for the time being in force with respect to the express delivery of Inland postal packets.

REGISTRATION.

41 Outgoing packets may be registered

41.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Warrant any out-going postal packet (except a magazine for Canada) may be registered.

(2) This Regulation shall not apply to any packet addressed to initials or in pencil, but such packet may be addressed in copying ink pencil unless it is sent in an envelope with a transparent panel.

42 Rule as to registration.

42. The following rules shall apply to the registration of the postal packets :—

(1) The packet may be posted by—

(a) delivery for registration at a post office to an officer on duty at such office : or

(b) delivery for registration to a rural post messenger when on duty on his outward or inward walk, or to some other officer of the Post Office authorised to receive packets for registration though not on duty at a post office.

(2) All sums chargeable on the registration of the packet, and all postage chargeable thereon, must be prepaid at the time of posting, but if no part or a part only of the postage is prepaid the packet shall be charged with the deficient postage only.

(3) On delivery of the packet for registration a certificate of posting, bearing thereon an acknowledgement that the registration fee has been paid, shall be obtained. This certificate must be filled up and signed by the officer of the Post Office receiving the packet.

43 Registration fees.

43. For the registration of outgoing postal packets there shall be charged and paid the following sums, that is to say :—

(1) When the packet is registered by delivery to an officer of the Post Office authorised to receive the same, though not on duty at a post office, or when the packet is registered at a post office before the expiration of the time appointed for the registration at such post office (without extra fee) of postal packets intended to be forwarded by the next despatch therefrom, the sum specified in respect thereof in the Second Schedule hereto (hereinafter called the " ordinary registration fee ").

(2) When the packet is registered at a post office after the expiration of the time appointed for the registration at such post office (without extra fee) of postal packets intended to be forwarded by the next despatch therefrom, but within such further time (if any) as the Minister may from time to time provide with reference to such office, such extra sum in addition to the ordinary registration fee as may be prescribed. Provided that such sum shall not exceed the amount specified in respect thereof in the Second Schedule hereto.

44 Advice of delivery.

44. The sender of an outgoing registered postal packet addressed to any country or place which is a party to the Universal Postal Union may obtain an advice of delivery thereof to the addressee by payment of the fee specified in respect thereof in the Second Schedule hereto in addition to any postage or other sum chargeable or payable in respect thereof.

45 Compulsory registration.

45.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Warrant every outgoing postal packet marked with the word " registered," or otherwise obviously intended to be registered, but not posted in the manner provided by this Warrant :—

(a) If the registration fee thereon has been prepaid, shall be registered before the same is forwarded, and may bedetained for that purpose until the ordinary despatch of packets next after that by which such packet would otherwise be forwarded, and

(b) If the registration fee has not been prepaid shall be detained and returned to the sender.

(2) Every outgoing postal packet which contains coin, banknotes, currency notes, negotiable instruments payable to bearer, platinum, gold or silver manufactured or not, precious stones, jewels or other precious articles and which is addressed to a country to which such articles are transmissible by post, shall be registered, and, if posted without registration, shall be returned to the sender.

(3) Every incoming postal packet which contains coin banknotes, currency notes, negotiable instruments payable to bearer, platinum, gold or silver manufactured or not, precious stones, jewels or other precious articles and which is not registered, shall be treated in accordance with the rules for the time being in force with respect to a similar Inland postal packet.

46 Compensation for loss.

46. Subject to the provisions of this Warrant—

(a) if any article of pecuniary value, enclosed in or forming part of a registered postal packet other than an insured letter, be lost or damaged so as entirely to destroy its value whilst in the custody of the Minister, the Minister may pay to any person or persons who may in the opinion of the Minister establish a reasonable claim to compensation (having regard to the nature of the article, the care with which it was packed, and other circumstances) such sum not exceeding the amount specified in the Third Schedule hereto as he may think just ;

(b) If any registered postal packet other than an insured letter be lost whilst in the post, the Minister may pay to the sender of such packet a sum not exceeding the amount specified in the Third Schedule hereto. Provided that compensation shall not be payable in respect of the same packet under both paragraphs of this Regulation.

INSURED LETTERS.

47 Conditions

47. The following rules shall apply to insured letters—

(1) Every insured letter shall be registered and insured under and in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant.

(2) The letter shall be packed and sealed in such manner as may be prescribed, and shall not be addressed to initials or in pencil and no erasure or correction shall be made in the address.

(3) The cover of the letter shall bear an entry (made otherwise than in pencil) of the sum for which it or its contents are to be insured, which sum must not exceed the real value of the letter or its contents.

(4) The letter shall not, without the express permission of the Minister, contain coin, articles subject to Customs duty, platinum, gold or silver manufactured or not, precious stones, jewels or other valuables, opium, morphine, cocaine and other narcotics and articles, the admission or circulation of which in the country of destination is prohibited ; provided that the letter may contain articles subject to Customs duty where the importation of such articles in insured letters is permitted in the country or place to which the letter is addressed.

(5) The letter shall be posted by delivery at a post office to an officer on duty at such office, and all postage chargeable on the letter must be prepaid at the time of posting.

(6) No insured letter shall be re-directed to a country or place with which the Minister has not for the time being an agreement for the exchange of insured letters.

48 Compensation for loss of insured letters.

48. If an insured letter or any article of pecuniary value, enclosed in or forming part of an insured letter, be lost or damaged whilst in the course of conveyance by the post under the provisions of this Warrant, the Minister may pay such sum as he may think just to the sender, or to the Postal Administration of any country in the Universal Postal Union, if in his opinion, such person or administration establishes a reasonable claim to compensation, having regard in the case of a lost or damaged article to the care with which it was packed, and other circumstances :

Provided that—

(a) In the case of an outgoing insured letter where, in addition to the postage payable in respect of such letter :—

(i) a sum equal to the registration fee prescribed in relation to outgoing postal packets under this Warrant, and

(ii) a compensation fee of an amount specified in the first column of the Fourth Schedule hereto (and no more) are paid in respect of such letters, the sum paid by way of compensation shall not exceed the sum specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

(b) In the case of an incoming insured letter, the sum paid by way of compensation shall be such a sum, not exceeding four hundred pounds as having regard to the amount of compensation fee in addition to the postage paid in respect of such letter, may from time to time be fixed between the Minister and the Postal Administration of the country from which the letter is transmitted.

INSURED BOXES.

49 Application of Warrant to insured boxes

49. The provisions of this Warrant, so far as the same are applicable, shall, subject as hereinafter provided, apply to the transmission of insured boxes, as if such boxes were insured letters transmitted under this Warrant.

50 Registration and insurance of insured boxes.

50. Every insured box shall be registered and insured under and in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant.

51 Maximum weight and dimensions.

51. Except by the special permission of the Minister no insured box shall be forwarded or delivered by post which exceeds the limits of size or weight specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.

52 Prohibitions in respect of insured boxes.

52.—(1) Without the express permission of the Minister insured boxes shall not contain :—

(a) A letter or anything in the nature of a letter.

(b) Bank notes, currency notes or other securities payable to bearer.

(c) Securities and articles in the nature of commercial papers.

(d) Any article or thing not authorised by the Customs or other laws or regulations of the State or of the country or place to which the insured box is addressed.

(2) Paragraph (4) of Regulation 47 of this Warrant shall not apply to insured boxes.

53 Re-direction of insured boxes.

53.—(1) Any insured box may be re-directed from its original address or any substituted address within the State to any country or place to which insured boxes are transmissable under this Warrant unless the sender has forbidden re-direction by means of a note to that effect on the address side of the box in a language known in the country of destination.

(2) No insured box re-directed from a place out of the State to a place within the state shall be delivered to the addressee except upon payment of all charges to which the insured box has become liable by the law of the State or of any country or place outside the State.

54 Application of foreign parcels (Customs) Warrant 1885 to letter packets and insured boxes

54. The provisions of the Foreign Parcels (Customs) Warrant, dated the 8th day of June, 1885, in relation to the application of the Customs Acts to parcels, shall apply to letter packets and insured boxes to which this Warrant relates as if the same were parcels.

CERTIFICATE OF POSTING OF UNREGISTERED PACKET.

55 Certificate of posting and fee therefor

55. Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, the Minister may, at the request of the sender of any unregistered postal packet, give the sender a certificate of posting of such postal packet. A feeequivalent to that payable for a certificate of posting for an Inland postal packet shall be payable for such certificate, and shall be prepaid by the sender of the postal packet.

MISCELLANEOUS.

56 Other postal packets not to interfere with litter post

56. Where the despatch or delivery from a post office of letters would be delayed by the despatch or delivery therefrom at the same time of postal packets of any other description, such packets or any of them may be detained in the post office until the despatch or delivery next following that by which they would ordinarily be despatched or delivered.

57 Compensation may be paid out of aids provided by the Oireachtas.

57. The Minister may give effect to the provisions of this Warrant as to the loss or damage of registered postal packets, insured letters and insured boxes, and of articles enclosed in or forming part of a registered postal packet, insured letter or insured box, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas for that purpose, but nothing contained in or done under or in pursuance of this Warrant shall render him liable either personally, or in his official capacity, to any action or other legal proceeding in respect of or in consequence of any such loss or damage. The decision of the Minister on all questions arising between him and any person claiming payment in respect of the loss or damage of a registered postal packet, insured letter or insured box or of any article enclosed in or forming part thereof shall be final and conclusive.

58 Application of Inland Post Regulations.

58. Except where otherwise provided in this Warrant, the Regulations for the time being applicable to Inland postal packets shall (where necessary) apply to postal packets transmissable by post under the provisions of this Warrant.

59 Prohibitions in respect of articles, etc., the exportation or importation of which is regulated by statute.

59. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Warrant, there shall not be posted, conveyed or delivered by post any postal packet containing any document, gold, currency, security, goods (including stamps) or other article, commodity, or thing the exportation or importation of which (as the case may be) is subject to control, restriction or prohibition under any Act or statutory instrument for the time being in force, except, in so far as the exportation or importation (as the case may be) is authorised in accordance with the provisions of such Act or statutory instrument.

60 Remission of postage.

60. The Minister may in any case in which he may consider it just or reasonable so to do remit any postage or any sum made payable under this Warrant.

61 Repeals.

61. The Warrants mentioned in the Fifth Schedule hereto (so far as unrepealed) are hereby repealed.

FIRST SCHEDULE

FIRST SCHEDULE —continued

FIRST SCHEDULE —continued

FIRST SCHEDULE.—continued.

Addendum showing particulars of the places to which letters are accepted at the rate of postage specified in Part I (a) above.

Aden.

Ascension.

Australia and Overseas and trust territories, viz. :—

Lord Howe Island.

Nauru.

Norfolk Island.

Papua.

New Guinea.

Bahamas.

Barbados.

Bermuda.

British Guiana.

British Honduras.

British Somaliland.

Brunei.

Burma.

Canada.

Cayman Islands.

Ceylon.

Cyprus.

Egypt.

Falkland Islands.

Fiji.

Gambia.

Gibraltar.

Gold Coast Colony.

Hong Kong.

India (including Indian Post Offices in Tibet and Indian and French Post Offices in the French Settlements).

Jamaica.

Kenya (Colony and Protectorate).

Leeward Islands, viz. :

Antigua.

St. Kitts.

Nevis.

Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands.

Malaya, Federation of, viz. :

Johore.

Kedah.

Kelantan.

Malacca.

Negri Sembilan.

Pahang.

Penang.

Perak.

Perlis

Selangor.

Trengganu.

FIRST SCHEDULE.—continued.

Malta.

Mauritius.

Morocco—British Postal Agencies at Tangier and in the Spanish Zone.

Nepal.

New Zealand, including the Cook Islands and Overseas trust territories, viz., the Tokelau Islands, Ross Territoty and the trust territory of Western Samoa.

Nigeria.

North Borneo (including Labuan).

Northern Rhodesia.

Nyasaland (Protectorate).

Pakistan.

Palestine.

Persian Gulf—British Postal Agencies.

St. Helena.

Sarawak.

Seychelles.

Sierra Leone.

Singapore (including Christmas Islands and Cocos (Keeling) Islands)

Union of South Africa, South West Africa and the territories of the South African High Commission, viz. :

Basutoland.

Bechuanaland (Protectorate).

Swaziland.

Southern Rhodesia.

Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian).

Tanganyika (Territory).

Trans-Jordan.

Trinidad and Tobago.

Turks and Caicos Islands.

Uganda (Protectorate).

Islands of the Western Pacific, viz. :

Solomon Islands (Protectorate).

Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Colony).

Tonga.

New Hebrides (Condominium).

Windward Islands, viz. :

Dominica.

Grenada.

St. Lucia and St. Vincent.

Zanzibar (Protectorate).

SECOND SCHEDULE

THIRD SCHEDULE

FOURTH SCHEDULE

FIFTH SCHEDULE.

(a) S.R. & O., 1922, No. 141.

(b) S.R. & O., 1926, No. 69.

(c) S.R. & O., 1943, No. 317.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 30th day of August, 1949.

P. McGILLIGAN,

Minister for Finance.

JAMES EVERETT,

Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.